BLOG ARCHIVE FOR February 2015

It’s that time of year, when we wear stripy 50 denier tights, drink spiced pumpkin lattes, and post Instagram photos of aforementioned attire and beverages while we wait for trick or treaters. Watching horror films is also standard practice on the 31st October, but what if Freddy Krueger gives you bedwetting night terrors?
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Some of the scariest horror out there is ambiguous and subtle, creeping you out with lingering unanswered questions. And then there are what we might call creature features – gloriously gross, sensationally shabby, no-holds-barred celebrations of (wo)man vs. nature. But today’s creature features can have finesse too. It just takes a little time and patience to search out the really good ones from the wonderful mess of low-budget space aliens and post-atomic giant termites (and tornado-borne sharks) crowding your Netflix queue.
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Halloween specials are usually an excuse for TV shows to get slightly creepier than normal. But few tend to go full pelt into blood, guts and gore. We have a mixture of both in a list of our favourite Hallowe’en-themed episodes – let us know if we’ve missed any classics in the comments below.
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The compilation of a literary nasty list is no easy feat – how does one put together a collection of controversial novels in our desensitized world? The film and publishing industries are saturated in blood and gore, bookshelves are weighed down by misanthropy and severed heads and Simon Cowell routinely disembowels contestants during X Factor on a Saturday evening. Okay, so that last one is a slight exaggeration, but you know what I mean, right? Below is a list of novels that have haunted me, horrified me and truly stayed with me…
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I’ve been playing a lot of Skyrim recently (have quite a way to go before I’m a threat to anyone but myself and a few scurrying foxes) and thinking about the representation of women in video games. Growing up, it felt that female characters were often side-lined, underdeveloped, or non-existent. Nowadays, there seems to be some improvement!
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The British Fantasy Society’s annual convention, FantasyCon, kicks off this weekend in Nottingham. And loads of us will be there! After the jump you’ll find the complete Hodderscape schedule, featuring Anne Perry, John Connolly, Lavie Tidhar, Matt Blakstad, Rebecca Levene, Scott Andrews and the mysterious Stark Holborn. If you see us, give us a wave!
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